Want to Buy A Magazine?

Time-Warner has just announced that it is selling the magazine that gives it its first name, Time. The company, which will main just consist of HBO and some other TV properties, will also throw in People and Sports Illustrated. This comes on the heels of a drastic and disastrous retooling of Newsweek, which has stopped printing news and is only printing opinion and analysis.

Is there a future for weekly magazines? I don't know anyone who subscribes to one. It seems the only function they serve is to fill the waiting rooms of doctors and dentists.

It almost seems that everything is doomed to migrate to the web. But if that happens, will anyone pay for it?

Media Hit Piece on Glenn Beck

Oh the irony.

Time magazine's hit piece on Glenn Beck, asking if he is bad for America, was released last week, just as the ACORN videos hit the airwaves. Even more ironic is that the authors of the smear are just as guilty as Beck when it comes to trying to garner readers and attention.

Time considers Beck to be a populist who's cashing in on the frustration of America. At least that much they got right. He is. That being said, I'm glad he's doing it. Someone has to.

There was nothing stopping the leftist media from investigating ACORN, Van Jones, the Lies about the Health Care proposals in Congress, the Czars, the Bailouts, TARP funds, and the rest of the corruption swirling around Washington.

The shame is that Time wastes its time asking if Beck is bad for America, rather than asking if Obama's policies and advisors are bad for America. Or ACORN. Or the Marxists in Congress. Isn't that their job?

Although the leftist media has openly mocked Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, bloggers, radio talk show hosts and every American who has openly expressed concern over the policies of this administration, we've been effective. The White House and Congress are starting to realize they can run roughshod over ever ideal America holds dear without consequences.

No wonder Time thinks Beck is dangerous. He's dangerous to their agenda. It's no wonder they are going after bloggers. They are cutting into Time's profit margins.

It's Early, But . . .

Every year, Time magazine names its "Man of the Year," which isn't always a man, by the way. The "Man of the Year" has been a computer at least once, and a "Woman of the year" more than once, I believe.

Even though its way too early to even speculate, I doubt I'll wind up on the short list. Even though I won't be there, I'll make one prediction and one suggestion.

My prediction is obvious. Obama will be Time's "Man of the Year." There is no question that the liberal leaning magazine will make the most liberal president of all time the focus of their annual love-fest.

Now for my suggestion: The "Man of the Year" should be the nation's Anti-Government-Run Socialized Health Care demonstrators.

Obama seems to have abused and squandered the political capital he rode into Washington with, and as much as anything, that may have help to sabotage his socialized medicine scheme.

Of all the newsworthy stories of the year so far, none has been more surprising than the robust democratic process that the health care debate has reinvigorated in the people of this nation.

While Democrats are still trying to insist that the nationwide grass-roots movement against Obama's Draconian schemes is contrived and illusory, it is just the opposite. Nothing could be so real as the American people, emboldened by their passion for liberty, standing up against a callous, dishonest government trolling for its freedoms in exchange for false promises.

All the proof we need that Obama and the Democrats in Congress recognize the authenticity of this grass-roots protest is their hysterical reaction to it. They wouldn't be hyperventilating about if if they believed it to be fake, but they would use their supermajorities to ram through this bill.

Indeed, that congressmen have not been able or "courageous" enough (against the threat of being removed from office in 2010) to pass a bill that they have been salivating over for 30 years is the story of the year. Integral to that story is the unraveling of the Obama mystique, occasioned by Obama's ongoing arrogance and duplicity.

Move over Obama. Move over Michael Jackson. Time may not recognize it, but the "Man of the Year" is Joe Conservative.